Oakland celebrated Cinco de Mayo with the inaugural Cinco de Mayo Dance Festival held at Jack London Square. The festival featured dancing horses, bands, low rider cars, Ballet Folkloric, Turf Dance Battle, an Open Dance Style Competition and more. In San Jose people gathered to celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Santana Row’s El Jardin Tequila Bar and Restaurant. The celebration featured a Mariachi band and dancing. Below is a list of some of the Bay Area Cinco de Mayo celebrations that continue on Sunday.

“There’s a saying that if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life,” says Nelson, who has graced the “Beach Blanket Babylon” stage for 23 years, “I pinch myself every once in a while because this is what I’ve dreamt of doing–being in a fabulous show in a fabulous city–and I get to do it every day.”, People seem to agree with Nelson that “Beach Blanket Babylon” is a fabulous show as it is now in its 41st year and has staged over 15,000 ballet shoes nursery art, drawing print, pink ballet slippers sketch, print from hand drawn illustration, gift for baby girl, gi performances, The show, a San Francisco institution created by the late producer Steve Silver, premiered at the Savoy Tivoli in 1974 before finding a permanent home at the larger Club Fugazi in 1975..

She said the company has repeatedly told dancers it stands by what it promised in the letters of intent: that dancers will have as many weeks of work as last year, and their overall pay will not decrease. Andrew Bales, president of Symphony Silicon Valley and a former executive director of the ballet company, said he and the symphony musicians who play for ballet performances are also eagerly waiting to learn the new season’s schedule. “Is it alarming to not know yet? Sure, but you kind of get used to it,” he said, recalling last year’s late-summer announcement. “Times are tough for everybody.”.

The group delivered a deliriously good set, highlighted by both Chic numbers and others that Rodgers — an incredibly accomplished composer, arranger and producer — had a hand in crafting. Highlights included the Chic hits “Le Freak,” “Good Times” and “Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)” as well as “We Are Family,” “Upside Down” and “I’m Coming Out.”. Yowsah, it was fun time at the park. Follow Jim Harrington at http://twitter.com/jimthecritic, www.facebook.com/jim.bayareanews and http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/category/concerts.